Public Address
This is the humble stage I used in February to deliver a Public Address at Foxy Production gallery in Chelsea.
In this speech, I discussed the Red and Blue states of the recent presidential elections as analogous to the Blue and Gray states of the Civil War, and particularly how the issue of same-sex Civil Union, as it was used in the Bush campaign, has somehow become the ironic lynchpin of a Civil War-like ethos in America.
I explored the oxymoronic notion of a Secessionist Union, weaving together historical moments of queer mustering, such as the Stonewall Rebellion, noting the extraordinary coincidence that the namesake of the Stonewall Inn is the Confederate Commander Thomas J. Jackson. I was also trying to invoke the metaphor of Secession versus Union to articulate the ambivalence in GLBTQ communities over counter-cultural allegiance versus mainstream identification.
In this speech, I discussed the Red and Blue states of the recent presidential elections as analogous to the Blue and Gray states of the Civil War, and particularly how the issue of same-sex Civil Union, as it was used in the Bush campaign, has somehow become the ironic lynchpin of a Civil War-like ethos in America.
I explored the oxymoronic notion of a Secessionist Union, weaving together historical moments of queer mustering, such as the Stonewall Rebellion, noting the extraordinary coincidence that the namesake of the Stonewall Inn is the Confederate Commander Thomas J. Jackson. I was also trying to invoke the metaphor of Secession versus Union to articulate the ambivalence in GLBTQ communities over counter-cultural allegiance versus mainstream identification.
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